Mischa Barton shares the dish about her meltdown — and rebound

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Alec Baldwin went on a homophobic, profanity-laden online rant in late June before shutting down his Alec Baldwin Foundation Twitter account, all in defense of his pregnant wife, Hilaria, whom a Daily Mail reporter had apparently errantly accused of tweeting while the couple attended James Gandolfini's funeral. Baldwin called Daily Mail writer George Stark a "toxic little queen" and "lying little bitch," and suggested Stark would enjoy forcible sodomy -- specifically a foot up the rear. The actor also threatened to find the writer and mess him up, only in more profane terms. All this against the backdrop of the tweeting story being off-base in the first place: Hilaria and Alec had left the funeral discreetly through a side door about 45 minutes in, after the eulogies but before Communion. The yoga instructor hadn't even had her phone with her, she said on Twitter. Turns out the writer didn't consider time zones when looking at time stamps on the tweets. MORE: Alec Baldwin loses it in Twitter rant, hurls homophobic slurs

Alec Baldwin went on a homophobic, profanity-laden online rant in late June before shutting down his Alec Baldwin Foundation Twitter account, all in defense of his pregnant wife, Hilaria, whom a Daily Mail reporter had apparently errantly accused of tweeting while the couple attended James Gandolfini's funeral. Baldwin called Daily Mail writer George Stark a "toxic little queen" and "lying little bitch," and suggested Stark would enjoy forcible sodomy -- specifically a foot up the rear. The actor also threatened to find the writer and mess him up, only in more profane terms. All this against the backdrop of the tweeting story being off-base in the first place: Hilaria and Alec had left the funeral discreetly through a side door about 45 minutes in, after the eulogies but before Communion. The yoga instructor hadn't even had her phone with her, she said on Twitter. Turns out the writer didn't consider time zones when looking at time stamps on the tweets. MORE: Alec Baldwin loses it in Twitter rant, hurls homophobic slurs (Andrew Burton / Getty Images)

Green Day lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong headed to rehab just days before the band was to release the first of three new albums. The revelation came less than 48 hours after Armstrong ranted and smashed his guitar at Clear Channel's iHeartRadio Festival in Las Vegas. The rant, or as much of it as we can print: "Give me a ... break," Armstrong shouted. "One minute left. One minute ... left. You're gonna give me ... one minute? Look at that ... sign right there. One minute. Let me ... tell you something. Let me tell you something. I've been around since ... 1980 ... 8 and you're going to give me one ... minute? You gotta be ... kidding me ... I'm not ... Justin Bieber." MORE: Billie Joe Armstrong joins long list of badly timed pop meltdowns

Green Day lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong headed to rehab just days before the band was to release the first of three new albums. The revelation came less than 48 hours after Armstrong ranted and smashed his guitar at Clear Channel's iHeartRadio Festival in Las Vegas. The rant, or as much of it as we can print: "Give me a ... break," Armstrong shouted. "One minute left. One minute ... left. You're gonna give me ... one minute? Look at that ... sign right there. One minute. Let me ... tell you something. Let me tell you something. I've been around since ... 1980 ... 8 and you're going to give me one ... minute? You gotta be ... kidding me ... I'm not ... Justin Bieber." MORE: Billie Joe Armstrong joins long list of badly timed pop meltdowns (Christopher Polk / Getty Images for Clear Channel)

"It was terrifying," she adds, via ABC News. "Straight out of 'Girl, Interrupted.' Story of my life."

The onetime breakout star of "The O.C." had a party-hearty outlook back in the day. "We thought, 'Work hard, play hard,'" she says. The jet-setting lifestyle, which was partnered with a nonstop work schedule, was fine until things got out of control, including a 2007 DUI when Barton was 21.

Then in 2009, when she threatened to kill herself, it all came to a screeching halt.

"I was never suicidal," she says. "I was just overworked and depressed. But one slip of the tongue in a heightened moment and you find yourself in that situation."

But even the road back to health was fraught with public criticism, just as her wild days had been.

"It was always, 'She's too skinny, she must be sick,'" Barton says. "Then it was, 'She's too big.' I was never the right weight."

All the party drama is behind her, she says — she'll have only a glass of wine with dinner and eats what she wants. She can be seen in the supernatural thriller "I Will Follow Your Into the Dark," which opened last week, and has a TV pilot in the can, "Gutsy Frog," in which she plays a schoolteacher.